The blogging community lost a powerful voice last week, with the passing of Andrea Collins-Smith, otherwise known as Punk Rock Mommy. On July 5, Andrea lost her year-long battle with inflammatory breast cancer. She was 38 years old.
I only became of aware of Andrea's blog after I joined the group blog Mothers With Cancer in early June (I am not sure how I managed to miss her before that, her blog touched thousands of readers). In fact, Andrea, a mother to five boys and a girl, authored our...


